till remains a province of the Ottoman empire. The inhabitants are Christians; but extremely ignorant, inso much that they seem to know nothing of Christianity but baptism and fasting. It is divided into four sangiacates; Byden, Sardice, Nicopolis, and Silistra. The chief towns are of the same names, except Sardice, which is now called Sophia.

**BULGARIAN Language,** the same with the Slavonic.

**BULIMY,** a disease in which the patient is affected with an insatiable and perpetual desire of eating; and, unless he is indulged, he often falls into fainting fits. It is also called *fomes canina*, canine appetite. See Medicine Index.

**BULITHUS,** a stone found either in the gall-bladder, BUL

der, or in the kidneys and bladder, of an ox. See Bos.

BULK of a Ship, the whole content in the hold for the stowage of goods.

BULK-Heads are partitions made athwart the ship with boards, by which one part is divided from the other; as the great cabin, gun-room, bread-room, and several other divisions. The bulk-head afore is the partition between the forecastle and gratings in the head.